Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 261 Hagrid's Memories and Guidance
Only then did Hagrid seem to realize the seriousness of the problem Hermione mentioned.

His face immediately turned red.

He kept mumbling in his mouth, saying that he must teach a certain profiteer and goblin a lesson.

"By the way, the thing you want to ask me, Harry... I will tell you, but I hope you don't change your mind about me!"

After being dazed for a long time, Hagrid came to his senses, quickly changed the topic just now, dragged Harry and the others to a relatively secluded and clean corner, and started talking.

"No, Hagrid! You've always been what you were that day in my heart... last year on my birthday you told me you were a wizard!" said Harry very excitedly.

This made Hagrid breathe a sigh of relief, he smirked a few times embarrassedly, and then spoke.

"Speaking of what you did some time ago, it was a great help to me! But I'd rather you not help...I don't want Harry to face the basilisk..."

"...such a monster!"

Hagrid shuddered at the thought.

After hesitating for a moment, he still slowly opened his mouth to tell about the past 60 years ago.

During the process of narrating, he kept trembling and shivering.I don't know if he recalled the incident of Azikaban, or he had already figured out that Tom Riddle was Voldemort.

In Hagrid's staccato narrative,
It all started with a small pet given to him by a tourist in 60, an eight-eyed spider.

"I was a child at the time, and I could only hide that cutie in a cupboard in the darkest corner of Hogwarts,..."

"Feed it the leftover bread crumbs from the dining table..." When talking about the cute, fluffy little spider, Hagrid showed a gentle look on his face, and even his voice became much softer, and he was not so scared anymore.

"Hagrid!" Ron yelled in shock and disgust, interrupting Hagrid's 'warm' memory.

He didn't understand what was so cute about spiders.

Hagrid has a unique complex with this huge monster, and he has known it for a long time.

During Hogwarts last year, the 'little dragon' that Hagrid had tried to feed in his hut, Norbert, had left deep marks on Ron's fingers, ... and the three-headed dog he called 'another cutie' ... named Fluffy, had given them nightmares for a while.

But a fluffy, eight-legged giant spider.

This was still beyond Ron's bottom line.

"Could it be you who opened the [Chamber of Secrets]?" Ron was obviously terrified by the spider, and yelled directly in a daze.

This caused other people to stare strangely.

"Ron! To be honest, I think you should ask Madam Pomfrey to check your memory..." Hermione rolled her eyes and said bluntly, (Ever since Ron had a big problem with Hermione's interest in studying in front of everyone, the two people's quarrel has not completely subsided yet)

"The monster in the [Chamber of Secrets] is a basilisk! A basilisk! You have seen it with your own eyes!..."

"But... Hagrid?"

Hermione suddenly remembered the group of big spiders they encountered when they rushed into the Forbidden Forest after the Thestral carriage lost control at the beginning of school. She said in a sharp tone, "Tell me...the eight-eyed spider group in the Forbidden Forest will not have anything to do with you!?"

Obviously, Hagrid's expression froze immediately.

"Uh, uh... I... After that time, I have already talked to Aragog."

"No way! Hagrid!" Harry broke down, and Ron didn't mention it.

"I just found a wife for Aragog! He deserves it..." Hagrid said of course.

But obviously Ron didn't understand this, and he didn't even dare to think about it.

He lifted his neck stiffly, looking straight at Hagrid.

As soon as Ron recalled the unbearable memories of being in the Forbidden Forest at the beginning of school, he trembled uncontrollably and asked Hagrid angrily,

"You deserve it?...To be honest, you shouldn't have hatched that big spider, that would be a mistake!"

But looking at Hagrid's expression... it was obvious that he didn't care about it.

He always likes those scary monsters, and thinks of them very beautiful and cute.

Seeing that the topic was getting further and further away, McGuffin quickly tried to bring it back on track.

"What happened to Hagrid back then? What happened next?" he asked.

"Okay! After that, a series of attacks just happened, just like now... They are all petrified... They need to be dispelled by the potion made from Mandrake..."

"By the way, the difference between then and now is that... someone claimed that the [Chamber of Secrets] was opened, and... only Muggle students were attacked!"

“Until finally one of the schoolgirls was killed!”

"At that time there was panic in the school, just like now, and it was even more frightening. People didn't know what caused this result..."

"And then... finally my spider was found... people thought it was my spider that killed the little witch!"

"Afterwards, you will know... I was broken from my wand and kicked out of school... I wandered in the outside world alone for a long time... It was a difficult time, and finally when Dumbledore became the headmaster, he overcame the crowd and arranged a job for me."

"He is an amazing person! I immediately knew that there was something suspicious in it, and I always believed in me, unlike other people..."

Talking about the moving part, Hagrid actually cried like a child and shed tears.

- Om!

Hagrid took out a huge handkerchief, twisted his nose vigorously, and continued.

"However, you are also amazing! After so many years, I finally found the evidence, proving that I was not suspected!...Let me be released from that ghost place in Azikaban...I knew that Aragog was not the culprit of all this!"

Hagrid hugged the three of them, expressing his thanks in almost illogical language...very excited.

But they strangled them a little out of breath.

Ron only rolled his eyes when he heard Hagrid saying the spider's name at the end.

"Let go..., let go!"

"Hagrid! Let go!"

Harry was about to be strangled.

Hagrid finally let go of the others.

"But to be honest... I don't know why you want to know about this thing from 60 years ago!"

"If you let me know that you want to find the Basilisk again, as some kind of adventure for excitement...Harry, in case something happens to you...I'd rather be locked up in Azikaban myself!"

Hagrid wiped his face, pulled it up, and said very seriously.

As he spoke, his eyes stared at McGuffin and Ron, obviously very suspicious that these two guys were inspiring Harry to take such a dangerous adventure like a bad boy from the neighbor's house.

"No, what are you looking at me for! Hagrid!" Ron immediately understood what his eyes meant, and said angrily, "I'm not George and Fred..."

"Don't worry! Hagrid...we're not that stupid, we didn't go looking for the basilisk on purpose last time..."

McGuffin explained to Hagrid why they wanted to ask about that incident decades ago. "You don't want Hogwarts to close early, do you!?"

"At that time, did you suspect that [secret chamber] that other people opened? ... Or you can also tell us the location and detailed information of those victims ... where they were attacked."

"Especially... who was the last victim? Where was she killed?"

Looking at the blank expression on Hagrid's face, McGuffin knew that he definitely didn't know. At that time, he estimated that all his thoughts were on that 'cute' eight-eyed spider, and he didn't remember anything else at all.

MacGuffin had to patiently guide him to say Myrtle's name.

Fortunately, under his guidance, Hagrid still remembered Myrtle.

"Well, in fact, you also know that poor girl... She was found in the women's bathroom on the second floor."

"Oh no!" cried Hermione.

"Yes...that poor little witch killed by the basilisk was Myrtle!" said Hagrid, "too bad I can't help you with anything else..."

"Who said that! Hagrid, you have been a great help!"

said McGuffin very excitedly.

ND!

——Finally, it is said that it is not easy!
Harry, Hermione and the others felt very strange seeing McGuffin so excited.

However, they also reacted.

"Could it be the entrance of [Secret Chamber]!"

"Is it there? In that - Moaning Myrtle's bathroom!" Harry said hoarsely, excited as well.

Harry and the others stood there, pacing back and forth, uncontrollably excited, and couldn't believe that the answer was always under their noses.

"Hagrid, Hagrid! You lend me the loudest cock!" cried the McGuffin.

"No!" Hagrid shook his head, "You can't take any more risks."

"I knew...you have to go to Professor McGonagall!"

"What's more, the Aurors and professors of the Ministry of Magic also know about this matter, so why don't they check there...I'm afraid they have checked both the attack site 60 years ago and now!"

"You didn't listen to me!... 60 years ago, it was all Muggles who were attacked... It's completely different from the indiscriminate attacks now. Harry and Ron will also be attacked, let alone Hermione and McGuffin!"

Hagrid yelled so loudly that the cock over there screamed.

Oh-oh non-stop!

"Hagrid! Listen to me..."

"The Aurors of the Ministry of Magic don't understand Parseltongue..."

"I guess Slytherin didn't have to be careless when he set up the [Chamber of Secrets] entrance, just like Muggles separated by a wall! He must have cast some kind of magic, and he must meet the standards of the heir he is...that is..."

Hearing what Hagrid said, McGuffin felt that it was not good, and he couldn't let the opportunity slip away like this, so he quickly explained.

"Parseltongue! Yes, we have two here! Yes, that's it!" Ron said, his eyes sparkling.

"Yes! That's right! Hagrid, let's try!"

"If it's true, let's go to Professor McGonagall, call Dumbledore, a bunch of Aurors, professor, let's go together! No matter who is behind the scenes, he can't escape." McGuffin said.

"Hagrid!" Even Hermione thought the proposal was a good one.She called Hagrid together with Harry, with a sweet smile on her face.

Facing the expectant eyes of the little wizard.

Hagrid was obviously overwhelmed.

"All right!"

"However, I must go with you... Let me see which rooster crows the loudest..."

He pulled his beard fiercely, grabbed some of the loudest roosters, took McGuffin, and Harry and the others rushed to the women's bathroom on the second floor.

……

"Oh oh oh!"

After the cock crowed a few times.

Count as a knock.

They led the chickens into Myrtle's bathroom.

The inside is still dilapidated, and there is water everywhere... as usual.

Nobody - including 'ghost'!
"What about people? Hasn't she been here all along? Has Myrtle left Hogwarts too?"

McGuffin couldn't believe it... and now it fell short.

He knew that some ghosts had escaped Hogwarts after Peeves' attack and gone elsewhere.

Could it be that Myrtle is gone too, and will he make up a reason to open the entrance to the [Chamber of Secrets] later?

McGuffin didn't want to do that, and that would raise suspicions in the others.

"Look at me!" Hermione sighed helplessly.

It looked like she didn't really want to do it.

"Myrtle, . . . crying myrtle! . . . crying, sullen myrtle!"

When Hermione yelled, "When the fat woman...is ugly..."

The water tank of the innermost toilet in this bathroom exploded with a bang, and the water sprayed out like a fountain.

There was a rush of water all over the floor, and the walls and floors were wet.

Accompanied by the water flow, the translucent myrtle came out, lying on the sky, crying and screaming piercingly.

The voice was shrill and loud... almost piercing through the walls, shaking the entire castle.

Tears rolled down her cheeks incessantly.

"Myrtle, I'm sorry, we have something to ask you!" Hermione said carefully.

"You forgot to say something about the pimple-faced myrtle..."

"Could it be that when you ask others for something now, do you scold them first?"

"Oh! I forgot... I'm already a ghost!"

"A fat old ghost..."

As she said that, she glared at Harry and the others fiercely, let out another scream, and dived into the toilet bowl in a diving posture, bringing out a bigger stream of water and splashing it on the already soaked floor.

(Those roosters kept screaming, flapping their wings, jumping and flying...don't want their feathers to get wet.)
Listening to the crying, McGuffin knew that Myrtle was still crying in the toilet.

Hermione felt more and more guilty.

"Don't ask me!" Myrtle loudly refused to communicate with them.

——This is impossible!
At this point, McGuffin doesn't want to give up halfway.

"Uh, we want to ask how you died in the first place!" He tried to say.

Myrtle got another half of her head out of the toilet bowl, and she said in a miserable state, "Then why did you do that! You hurt a poor female ghost like that..."

"We just don't know where you are! Myrtle, can you tell us the answer to that question?" said Harry.

Facing Harry, Myrtle's demeanor changed.

"Ouch!"

"That's a horrible story... I told those Ministry Aurors a while ago..." she said with relish.

It seemed that in the face of Harry's question, she was suddenly ignited with strong interest.

Gan!
McGuffin had nothing to say.

(End of this chapter)